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This is tom brokaw reporting on nbcs "nightly news." >> nelson mandela was honored by new york city in a way usually reserved for presidents, astronauts and hometown world series champs. he came here to continue his campaign against apartheid. president bush said u.s. sanctions would stay on until certain additional steps are taken. but for the most part this was a day to celebrate mandela. the man who spent 27 years in prison was given a heros welcome. governor cuomo calling him a symbol of ind...

I really havent drank caffeine since. >> good for you. >> i can recall being in the oakland coliseum, i think it was 1989, krs 1 was performing. then this living, breathing giant came out and all of us were in you a. we were so accustomed to our leaders being killed. here was a man who was fully human. he embraced violence self-defense when it was the most logical and yet deeply courageous thing to do. he had done hard time in prison and he had come out on outside showing us black people could t...

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Do anything big until thats the case. that bothered me. there was a personal moment. howard fineman noticed it more than i did when he seemed to be talking in a rare way from a man who is somewhat distant about the personal problem hes had of being president. hes had to be scrutinized. he does not like being scrutinized. i dont know who does. he doesnt like being constantly attacked. nobody does. what keeps him going is the personal meetings he has with people when he finds out he may have saved...

>> much later. the first time we met actually was in oslo. this is the conference i invited him to the conference. in the car i said to him a few months from now you may come back and i come back here for different reasons, ill come back here and celebrate you and you will get a nobel peace prize because i nominated you for it. it was really special. he was a really special man. >> nobel peace prize laureate professor elie wiesel. thank you for your thoughts and your time. after the break, posit...

Somebody else pushes it furs. >> chris, i thought that was an amazing moment in the obama presidency hearing him say that. also in the context of what were talking about in terms of what makes him a great leader. your comments on the president? >> of course, i didnt like hearing it. i guess some of his enemies liked hearing it. kind of a profound recognition of limitations from a man who spoke of wanting to lead a transformational presidency. last night in spelling it out, i said cant we comprom...

Msnbcs very own chris matthews. chris, we have a whole panel in new york. i want to go to you first. you spoke with the president yesterday. theres a lot of talk about nelson mandelas legacy but i want to start with the man himself. nelson mandela was not just a leader of south africa, he was a global visionary. you spent time in south africa. i wonder as a man interested in struggles of democracy and repressed people and the foundations of democracy and principles of it around the world, what i...

Today. we should remember not only the man who embraced his former enemies but also the man who refused to be bowed by those enemies, who remained militant despite 27 years of imprisonment who walked out of jail with his head held high and eyes toward the future. >> we think of nelson mandela and see that smile thats like sunshine. it just lights up anyplace. i only had the experience of meeting him once, it was in 94 and he was already nelson mandela. but before, long before, it wasnt that he w...

Mandela throughout his career was his willingness to sacrifice his legal career, his family, 27 years of freedom, potentially second or third term as president for his country, sacrifice his base who admired him. he really pushed back at them. i think the other thing that really strikes me is that the whole word is united in mourning this man. when he needed the world they were looking the other way and talking about him as a terrorist. >> we begin this footage and im going to play some of chris...